The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-08-25

erage tine Tor educating his whole
family, would not amount to enough
to buy desirable lot in town.
What poor mans son is not bet
ter equipped for life's battle with
| our High School diploma in hand.
than town lot so meanly earned ?
Let some weighted down taxpay-
er give the above problem TO his
promising son as a review of his
teaching and prove the statement
by the facts and figures. Time and
space will not permit it here.
Now let us further see what has
actually been saved to the taxpay-
er by this reduction of teachers
salaries
We shall put the sum devoted to
school purposes high-S7,000.-
By the reduction this year
it will be sS025-s975 less than
last year. The actual saving is in
reality loss than $500.
We shall further put the valua-
ton of property at 900 SO that
it NAV give US the best possible
showing of what has been saved.
The tax divided by tho valuation
will give US the rate 5 3-5 mills on
the dollar, reduction of less than
1mlll on the dollar, 81 on the thous
and valuation.
Who that pays tax would not bo
ashamed at grumbling because he
paid S1.00, 10 cents, 8 cents q year
to help educate his own or his poor
neighbours children? Could he pay
rent or even smoke one cigar a
month on his savings if he chose to
SO invest tnem!
The less said about another point
taken the better, as it is a standing
rebuke 10 the financial management
of our school fund that teachers
are not paid what is on record to
their credit. What day laborer or
mechanic in the district must pay a
DISCOUNT on his order or warrant
before he can get his cash? Our
teachers 40 it, have done il for yea Is
and will continue to do it till a raise
is made on the levy by petition to,the
Legislature, INSTEAD of this reduc-
ton.
Do this for single year and you
will be out of this difficulty. Ifthe
rates were doubled the facts and fig
ures above show that no one would
feel 1t except those who can stand
it. Busidess men of our own and
surrounding towns have remarked
upon this feature of the case and
the teachers in towns around u.s.
Yes, even our own country school
districts wo nGer at it.
Part of another point is a s'beg-
ging of the question:
The writer admits that teaching
is profession that young men
and young women fit themselves for
/. as do those individuals who enter
upon the practice of law, medicine
and theology. Such being the case
why should their salaries be less
than thoz Of other professional men
or the fabulous fees of lawyers ?-l
and yet he speaks of our '.JcMcy,
teacher S."
Is there lawyer, h doctor.
or minister in the Logan
Village school district who works a
year for q sum ranging from $3.50 to
$500? IT there is, The dignity of
his professor will bid blm keep it
secret.
But our teachers must do 1t. They
are to live. dress, buy few books,
take a period deal and a school journ |
al, pay their own expenses if they
attend teachers association for the
good of the schools, keep up with
he times, and if they have a care of
heir health, take trip or make |
, visit 20 some distant friend. Per-
ha3s putting the last dollar of this
fancy hIgh-prlced salary" in cir
culation before the next years work |
begins.
But "the teaching profession is
,verstocked." Will the reduction
If salaries reduce the number Ct
eschers? Yes, and to the detri-
nent of the schools. Cheap teach
,rs are like cheap clothing; not
long in the market and not long
worn.
There ought to be E local pride in
leeping up the salaries of our
eachers.
foreign teachers have gotten
higher salaries in harder times than
'ur own teachers now get. Be-
ides, our teachers are the fruits of